“Crœus then, Cœus, Hyperion and Iäpetus, Themis and Thea rose; Mnemosyne And Rhea; Phœbe diademed with gold, And love-inspiring Tethys; and of these, Youngest in birth, the wily Kronos came, The sternest of her sons; and he abhorred The sire that gave him life “Then brought she forth The Cyclops haughty of spirit.” And he enumerates all the other Giants descended from Kronos. But last he tells how Zeus was born from Rhea. All these men, then, declared, as we have set forth, their opinions about the nature and birth of the universe. But they all, departing from the Divine for lower things, busied themselves about the substance of the things that are. So that when struck with the grandeurs of creation and thinking that these were the Divine, each of them preferred before the rest a different part of what was created. But they discovered not the God and fashioner of them. The opinions therefore of those among the Greeks who [Sidenote: p. 52.] have undertaken to philosophize, I think I have sufficiently set forth. Starting from which opinions the heretics have made the attempts we shall shortly narrate. It seems fitting, however, that we, first making public the mystic rites,[159] should also declare whatever things certain men have superfluously fancied about stars or magnitudes; for truly those who have taken their starting-points from these notions are deemed by the many to speak prodigies. Thereafter, we shall make plain consecutively the vain opinions[160] invented by them.[161] END OF BOOK I FOOTNOTES